Beaver Falls

* A Hanover Township woman was charged with receiving stolen property after police said she sold a stolen power washer to Hamilton Tools, 401 Seventh St., Beaver Falls.

Police said Tammy Littel, 44, of 112 Lance Road, sold a Craftsman power washer to the store on May 12, but the power washer had been reported stolen in Ambridge the previous day.

* A Beaver Falls man was charged with violating a protection from abuse order and harassment after an incident at 5:22 p.m. April 13 in Morado Dwellings.

Deion Durant, 21, whose last known address was 2700 Ninth Ave., approached Pam Krawczyanski, no age or address given, threatened to kill her and choked her, according to a police report.

* A White Township man and a Beaver Falls woman face charges after an incident at 10:08 a.m. April 11 in Beaver Falls.

According to a Beaver Falls police report, an officer spotted a car being driven by Blaire Ellis Cockfield, 26, whose last known address was 2306 Clayton Road. The officer knew Cockfield had a suspended driver's license, and there was a warrant out for his arrest, the report said. Police did not say what the warrant was for.

The officer lost sight of the car but found it in the 1200 block of Fifth Avenue. However, Cockfield was not in the car, and Desiree Star Turner, 21, of 809 Ninth Ave., was in the driver's seat, the report said. Turner admitted Cockfield had been driving, but he got out and ran toward the river, the report said. Police said Turner was yelling profanities, and there was marijuana in the car, the report said.

The car the two were in was a rental that had not been rented by either Cockfield or Turner, the report said.

Both were charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle. Cockfield was also charged with driving under suspension, and Turner was charged with disorderly conduct and possession of a small amount of marijuana.

* A New Brighton man is facing charges after police said he threatened to kill officers while being taken into custody on a parole violation.

Reginald Robinson Jr., 25, of 521 Second Ave., was being arrested on the parole violation at 2:40 p.m. April 12 in the 1200 block of Seventh Avenue when he began yelling profanities and said he was going to "kill a cop," according to a police report. While in a jail cell he then threatened to kill officer Justin Schlie, the report said.

Robinson was charged with making terroristic threats and disorderly conduct.

* An Aliquippa man was charged after police said he exposed himself in Beaver Falls.

According to a police report, James W. Hunter, 47, of 1599 Jackson St., Apartment 3, was walking around 10:30 a.m. May 20 in the 600 block of 10th Street -- near Divine Mercy Academy -- when he unzipped his pants, exposed himself and continued to walk down the street exposing himself. Hunter looked back to where a woman was standing and then ran off, the report said.

Hunter is charged with indecent exposure and disorderly conduct.

* A Beaver Falls man is facing drug charges after police said they responded to his residence for a domestic dispute.

A Beaver Falls police report said police went to the home of Matthew T. Anderson, 35, of 416 18th St., at 11:20 a.m. May 22 for a domestic dispute and saw sitting in plain view two pipes, a rolling machine, a hemostat and a processing table with a knife and marijuana on it.

Anderson was charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

* An Ohio woman was charged after police said she left a Beaver Falls thrift store with merchandise she hadn't paid for.

A police report said Stacey A. Mayle, 25, of 6919 Lake Drive SW, Navarre, went May 6 to the HCHS Thrift Store, 914 Seventh Ave., and tried to pay for $517 worth of merchandise with several credit cards. Some of the cards were declined, and the clerk thought a card had processed when a receipt came out, the report said. The employee later realized that no transactions had been processed, the report said.

The store and police made attempts to call Mayle before police filed a charge against her, but she did not respond, police said. Mayle was charged with retail theft.

* Two people are facing charges after money was discovered missing from purses at Providence Health Care, 900 Third Ave., Beaver Falls, police said.

Police said that on Jan. 30, Kathleen Alena McCollim, 26, of 444 Jackson St., Rochester, took a total of $650 from five purses while she was in the building. McCollim's boyfriend, Clayton R. Martin, 22, of 1103 10th St., Second Floor, New Brighton, had an appointment at the clinic, police said.

McCollim was charged with theft and criminal conspiracy to commit theft. Martin was charged with criminal conspiracy to commit theft and possession of drug paraphernalia.

* A Beaver Falls man was charged after a traffic stop at 2:26 a.m. May 14 in the 800 block of 11th Street in Beaver Falls.

According to a police report, police pulled over a vehicle driven by Paul Eugene Bigstaff, 50, of 923 13th St., after he ran a red light and nearly hit another vehicle. Bigstaff urinated on himself while being handcuffed and refused to take a blood-alcohol level test, the report said. Bigstaff also had a bottle of Viagra on him that was prescribed to someone else, the report said.

Bigstaff was charged with drunken driving, possession of a controlled substance, driving an unregistered vehicle and driving without a license.

* A Beaver Falls man was charged after a domestic dispute at his apartment, according to a police report.

Larry Ray Nelson, 54, of 1006 Fifth Ave., Apartment 3, was charged with simple assault and possession of a small amount of marijuana. The police report said police went to Nelson's apartment at 12:14 a.m. May 25. Nelson got into an argument with Sharon Killyon, no age given, also of 1006 Fifth Ave., and choked her, the report said. Nelson then slapped Killyon in the face when she called police, the report said.

Police said they found marijuana on Nelson when they took him into custody.

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